2010 Motogp riders news

[MIGHTY MAX]

JAMES TOSELAND been toss out to SBK on a Yamaha Team

[ambasnakeman]

For Ben Spies, its rookie yr...wat are the chances yamaha will give him a factory bike?

 

Edwards confirmed?

[MIGHTY MAX]

Confirm Edward & Spies are Team mate on Tech3 Yamaha..all American Dream Team...

 

Edward sign for 1 more tear with Tech 3 Yamaha

[geekster]

And Yamaha's WSBK factory team has become an All-British Team.

 

Maybe Dovizioso and Lorenzo should swap team. Then the teams will really be supported according to nationality......

[prasad]

Spies to make wild card appearance at Valencia .....

 

Ben Spies will make a wild card appearance for Yamaha in the final round of 2009 at Valencia ahead of his permanent move into MotoGP next year.

 

 

Following the announcement on Thursday that Ben Spies will move to MotoGP in 2010, Yamaha Motor Company now announces that it will enter the Texan as a wild card into the season-ending Valencia race.

 

25-year-old Spies will participate as a single rider entry of a Yamaha Factory Racing Team, using YZR-M1 test bikes brought over from Japan. The Valencia MotoGP round takes place 6-8th November, two weeks after the final World Superbike round in Portugal.

 

The wild card entry will provide an opportunity for Spies to get extra circuit time prior to his inclusion in the Tech 3 Yamaha Team for the two-day MotoGP test on the Tuesday and Wednesday after the Grand Prix.

[TooToo7]

MotoGP Qualifying Practice Classification PDF

Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Motorcycle Lap time Km/h Gap

1 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Fiat Yamaha Team Yamaha 1'36.214 326.804

2 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Fiat Yamaha Team Yamaha 1'36.474 325.684 0.260

3 27 Casey STONER AUS Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 1'36.528 323.011 0.314

4 3 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 1'36.702 326.057 0.488

5 5 Colin EDWARDS USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 1'37.142 325.777 0.928

6 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 1'37.448 320.381 1.234

7 65 Loris CAPIROSSI ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 1'37.489 325.220 1.275

8 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Repsol Honda Team Honda 1'37.541 317.883 1.327

9 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 1'37.654 322.190 1.440

10 36 Mika KALLIO FIN Pramac Racing Ducati 1'37.813 321.102 1.599

11 15 Alex DE ANGELIS RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 1'37.822 318.681 1.608

12 52 James TOSELAND GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 1'37.823 320.922 1.609

13 24 Toni ELIAS SPA San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 1'37.911 327.272 1.697

14 88 Niccolo CANEPA ITA Pramac Racing Ducati 1'38.042 326.243 1.828

15 7 Chris VERMEULEN AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 1'38.342 323.194 2.128

16 33 Marco MELANDRI ITA Hayate Racing Team Kawasaki 1'38.538 324.573 2.324

17 41 Gabor TALMACSI HUN Scot Racing Team MotoGP Honda 1'39.320 307.684 3.106

[Shark]

Anybody watched the 250 race? Great battle, the 2nd place had to be shared as both finished at the same timing, but they selected 2nd according to who had the better lap in the race...

 

Ben spies.. good luck! Confirmed entry for MotoGP next year

[geekster]

Sorry side track a bit. Has it been confirmed that we have to switch to Singtel Mio in order to catch Motogp live from next year onwards?

[Tortise]

vermeulen off to WSBK with kawasaki factory in 2010, with promise of full support. considering they've ditched motoGP, they might be serious about winning WSBK again since 1993

[Guest deganduss]

Sorry side track a bit. Has it been confirmed that we have to switch to Singtel Mio in order to catch Motogp live from next year onwards?

 

Tis is what my friend told me tis morning KNN CCB

[MC28]

2010 MotoGP World Championship - confirmed line-up;

 

1. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha

2. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha

3. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro

4. Nicky Hayden USA Ducati Marlboro

5. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki

6. Alvaro Bautista SPA Rizla Suzuki*

7. Marco Melandri ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini

8. Marco Simoncelli ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini*

9. Hector Barbera SPA Aspar Ducati*

10. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda

11. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda

12. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda

13. Ben Spies USA Tech 3 Yamaha*

14. Colin Edwards USA Tech 3 Yamaha

15. Aleix Espargaró SPA Pramac Racing*

16. Mika Kallio FIN Pramac Racing

 

* stands for rookie year

[ShoAsuka]

Anybody watched the 250 race? Great battle, the 2nd place had to be shared as both finished at the same timing, but they selected 2nd according to who had the better lap in the race...

 

Ben spies.. good luck! Confirmed entry for MotoGP next year

 

it was really interesting to see how he came up from behind and then side by side...

[ambasnakeman]

2010 MotoGP World Championship - confirmed line-up;

 

1. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha

2. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha

3. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro

4. Nicky Hayden USA Ducati Marlboro

5. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki

6. Alvaro Bautista SPA Rizla Suzuki*

7. Marco Melandri ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini

8. Marco Simoncelli ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini*

9. Hector Barbera SPA Aspar Ducati*

10. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda

11. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda

12. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda

13. Ben Spies USA Tech 3 Yamaha*

14. Colin Edwards USA Tech 3 Yamaha

15. Aleix Espargaró SPA Pramac Racing*

16. Mika Kallio FIN Pramac Racing

17. Alex Esparago FIN Pramac Racing*

18. Hiroshi Ayoma Honda - Team TBC*

 

* stands for rookie year

[Tortise]

hopefully honda opens up new team for aoyama to partner elias...

[Specs]

hopefully honda opens up new team for aoyama to partner elias...

 

Aoyama already signed for new satelite team next year, running hondas

[MIGHTY MAX]

I think Ayoma better stick at MOTO2 next year.. At least he have the chance to be Champion again if he win this year..MOTOGP he will be top 15..he not up to it yet...he is smooth rider but not aggressive as the top riders including Ben Spies..

[ambasnakeman]

Interesting comment by Burgess in a MOTOGP interview

 

Burgess continued, “Certainly, my objective from an engineering perspective is to make a bike that all riders can ride. It’s a very well tuned bike which has been developed by Valentino Rossi, and any rider coming in to ride this bike doesn’t have to worry about development. They have the ability and the information that we have put together over many years, combined with the settings we have from the last two especially – and particularly with the Bridgestone tyres – so it’s not as easy to develop the bike as it is to ride the bike. We have a rider in Valentino who develops the bike and we have on the other side of the garage one guy who just has to ride.”

[Guest deganduss]

Interesting comment by Burgess in a MOTOGP interview

 

Burgess continued, “Certainly, my objective from an engineering perspective is to make a bike that all riders can ride. It’s a very well tuned bike which has been developed by Valentino Rossi, and any rider coming in to ride this bike doesn’t have to worry about development. They have the ability and the information that we have put together over many years, combined with the settings we have from the last two especially – and particularly with the Bridgestone tyres – so it’s not as easy to develop the bike as it is to ride the bike. We have a rider in Valentino who develops the bike and we have on the other side of the garage one guy who just has to ride.”

 

Very deep meaning & see if the other side of the garage react

[MIGHTY MAX]

Interesting comment by Burgess in a MOTOGP interview

 

Burgess continued, “Certainly, my objective from an engineering perspective is to make a bike that all riders can ride. It’s a very well tuned bike which has been developed by Valentino Rossi, and any rider coming in to ride this bike doesn’t have to worry about development. They have the ability and the information that we have put together over many years, combined with the settings we have from the last two especially – and particularly with the Bridgestone tyres – so it’s not as easy to develop the bike as it is to ride the bike. We have a rider in Valentino who develops the bike and we have on the other side of the garage one guy who just has to ride.”

 

Yes , its true...but they dont share secret data wz their own team mate. that why they put a partition between Rossi & Lorenzo...

[MC28]

They dont share race setups etc etc but i do believe the M1 is what it is now due to Rossi input in it's early years of development which resulted in this current competition winning bike..

 

Imagine putting Lorenzo or anyone else in Rossi's place during the early switch, how would the M1 be now...

 

And Rossi did mention that he had no choice as it's Yamaha making the final call..

[Tortise]

Burgess continued, “We have a rider in Valentino who develops the bike and we have on the other side of the garage one guy who just has to ride"...

 

Rossi in post-race interview; "It was a very difficult race for me,” confessed Rossi. “I was never able to be fast because I did not have enough grip in the rear and our tyre did not work well, but I think it was more a problem of setting...

 

 

Now if Lorenzo had no input at all on the bike, how was it that he did not have rear tyre problems and was able to win the race in Estoril? Either he does have input on the bike (and not just ride), or he can handle the situation better than Rossi (but it can't be that far diff rite)...

[TooToo7]

Rossi already said before; sometimes Lorenzo get the setting right and he doesn't. Different rider, different riding style, different setup. There is no two identical rider. Bike is developed the same way. But setup totally differently for two different rider.

[geekster]

Developing a prototype race bike and setting up a bike for a race is two different things.

[smudge]

2010 MotoGP World Championship - confirmed line-up;

 

1. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha

2. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha

3. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro

4. Nicky Hayden USA Ducati Marlboro

5. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki

6. Alvaro Bautista SPA Rizla Suzuki*

7. Marco Melandri ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini

8. Marco Simoncelli ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini*

9. Hector Barbera SPA Aspar Ducati*

10. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda

11. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda

12. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda

13. Ben Spies USA Tech 3 Yamaha*

14. Colin Edwards USA Tech 3 Yamaha

15. Aleix Espargaró SPA Pramac Racing*

16. Mika Kallio FIN Pramac Racing

17. Alex Esparago FIN Pramac Racing*

18. Hiroshi Ayoma Honda - Team TBC*

 

* stands for rookie year

 

amba, no.15 and no.17 different person?

[ambasnakeman]

2010 MotoGP World Championship - confirmed line-up;

 

1. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha

2. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha

3. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro

4. Nicky Hayden USA Ducati Marlboro

5. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki

6. Alvaro Bautista SPA Rizla Suzuki*

7. Marco Melandri ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini

8. Marco Simoncelli ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini*

9. Hector Barbera SPA Aspar Ducati*

10. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda

11. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda

12. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda

13. Ben Spies USA Tech 3 Yamaha*

14. Colin Edwards USA Tech 3 Yamaha

15. Aleix Espargaró SPA Pramac Racing*

16. Mika Kallio FIN Pramac Racing

17. Hiroshi Ayoma Honda - Team TBC*

 

* stands for rookie year

 

my mistake

 

rumour is talmasci might be forced into MOTO 2, so tat alex de angelis can get his spot.

 

kawasaki has pulled out from motogp